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12-letter words containing p, e, r, i, o

  • pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • pre-ignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
  • pre-position — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • precipitator — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • precisionist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • precognition — knowledge of a future event or situation, especially through extrasensory means.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preconceived — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • precondition — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
  • prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
  • prediscovery — a previous discovery
  • predisposing — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • preinduction — occurring before an induction
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
  • prenegotiate — to discuss before a formal negotiation
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • prenominally — before a noun
  • preoperative — occurring or related to the period or preparations before a surgical operation.
  • preordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
  • preparations — measures done in order to prepare for something; provisions
  • prepsychotic — exhibiting behavior that indicates the approach of a psychotic reaction.
  • prerecession — of the period before a recession
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